Time flies, and before we know it, it’s New Year’s Day.
After New Year's Day, it means that the Chinese New Year is coming soon. Various materials are entering the city one after another.
After the farmers in the countryside sell their grain and have some money in their hands, they are all willing to go to the city for a stroll.
Families that were well-off would buy a few feet of cloth to make new clothes for their children. Families that were not well-off would buy a hairband and two pounds of candy.
Workers in the factories in the city live better than farmers. They have wages and also receive more benefits during the holidays.
Young girls and boys all like to go to department stores to look at fashionable clothes and shoes.
Qiao Baozhu launched red and blue knee-length skirts, which were very popular. Later, she launched white-collar green plaid shirts and yellow waist-length slim dresses.
As soon as the last two new products came out, they were sold out immediately at the supply and marketing cooperative where Sun Jihong worked.
These two styles of clothing were so popular that customers went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative's head office to ask for them, and the head office sent Sun Jigang to purchase them.
Qiao Baozhu only has a few female workers, and even if they work overtime 24 hours a day, they cannot meet such a huge demand.
"It seems that we have to find a factory to do the processing for us, otherwise these orders will be snatched away by others sooner or later."
These two new styles are not a trade secret. If the textile factory wants to intercept this business, any production workshop can meet the supply and marketing cooperative's order in less than three days.
That is to say, in large state-owned enterprises, before producing a new product, they must first hold a meeting to discuss it, and then the leaders of various departments must approve and sign it before the production workshop can start production.
It will take at least half a month to complete all these procedures.
With the development of manufacturing industry in the future, these two popular clothes would appear in every clothing store and commercial street in the city within three days at most.
Qiao Baozhu knew that time was money, and her small workshop could not handle the orders from the supply and marketing cooperative. But she did not want to give it to others, so she discussed with Sun Jigang and found a textile factory to process it for her.
"Your idea of outsourcing processing is quite novel. But it is still quite troublesome to do it."
Since Qiao Baozhu is in this line of work, she naturally knows something about her peers.
"The big textile factories are definitely not willing to take on such small jobs. We can negotiate with the small textile factories."
Sun Jigang frowned, and couldn't think of any small textile factory that could take on this job.
"When I was a child, the school held a walking meeting to recall the bitter past and think of the sweet past. I once went to the Martyrs' Cemetery in Beishan to pay respects to the deceased, and I think I passed by a textile factory."
Qiao Baozhu reminded Sun Jigang bit by bit: "It seems there is a small ditch or something."
"Sunjiagou, my family is from Sunjiagou. It was not a textile factory, but a glove factory, established in the 1950s. My father and mother were the first batch of employees of that glove factory."
Qiao Baozhu opened her mouth. She didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.
"The glove factory has not been doing well in the past two years. My father told me that many of the debts owed have not been repaid, and the children of the old employees are unwilling to take over. The factory has not hired anyone for several years."
Nowadays, in any good company, when employees retire, they will simply let their children take over.
Later, all the major factories were not doing well, and the children of factory workers would rather find jobs outside than take over the factories.
"The glove factory is not doing well and the workers are having a hard time. If I can take over this order from the supply and marketing cooperative, at least I'll have some benefits for the New Year."
There was no need for Qiao Baozhu's lobbying. As Sun Jigang was in a leadership position, he thought further ahead.
"I'm going to the glove factory right now to talk to their director. Baozhu, wait for me at home. I think we'll be able to sign a contract with the glove factory tomorrow."
Sun Jigang was full of pride and went to the glove factory excitedly.
"Boss, the glove factory is doing the work for us, so can we continue to do it?"
Zheng Zhaohong didn't mean to eavesdrop on the bosses' conversation; she went out to the toilet and accidentally overheard it.
Because the boss's conversation was related to their store's business, they listened a little more.
Just this one move made Zheng Zhaohong break out in a sweat.
The boss is looking for a glove factory to do the processing for the store. Will they be fired?
Qiao Baozhu looked at Zheng Zhaohong deeply, and the displeasure in her eyes frightened Zheng Zhaohong like a thorn in his back.
"I'm sorry, I won't eavesdrop again."
Zheng Zhaohong apologized with a red face.
“There won’t be a next time!”
What this means is that if this happens again, the person will be fired immediately and will not be tolerated.
Zheng Zhaohong was really scared. He nodded repeatedly and swore to heaven that he would never eavesdrop on his boss's conversation again.
"Okay, be careful next time."
Qiao Baozhu frowned and let Zheng Zhaohong go.
Zheng Zhaohong walked towards the workshop nervously. When he was about to push the door, Qiao Baozhu spoke softly behind him.
"The glove factory can process this batch of orders, and you guys can make new styles. Two styles of children's clothing for the New Year, one for boys and one for girls."
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